May 6th, 2012 - in Pitt Meadows

[gaamin]

Fire trucks at the airport around 8 am today. Pilot was pulled out of his plane which was partly on fire. Flown by helicopter to hospital.

[AirFrame]

Any idea what kind of plane it was? Reports seem to be converging on a two-place amateur-built scale replica of some kind. I suspect it was just a two-place homebuilt with a warbird-like paint scheme, but don't know what planes are based over there at Pitt.

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This courtesy of News1130:

Assistant Pitt Meadows Fire Chief Brad Perrie says the plane wasn't your traditional aircraft.

"It was what we call a kitplane. It wasn't like a homemade plane that you build at home. It was an actual kit that you can buy and assemble."

I wonder where you would assemble that... since you wouldn't do it at home, apparently...

[CFR]

Best wishes for a speedy recover to the pilot.

This courtesy of News1130:

Assistant Pitt Meadows Fire Chief Brad Perrie says the plane wasn't your traditional aircraft.

"It was what we call a kitplane. It wasn't like a homemade plane that you build at home. It was an actual kit that you can buy and assemble."

I wonder where you would assemble that... since you wouldn't do it at home, apparently...

Homemade planes are built at home. A specific subset of homemade planes, the "kit" plane, are built in the Kitchen